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Region 7 | July 29, 2025 | Wabash

Mike Wilson
mwilson@wabashvalleyfs.com

Caption: Wet spring keeps on giving. Thin soybean stands are breaking with waterhemp.
Caption: Even pretty good stands are breaking with waterhemp. With all the rain, no residual remains.
SYNOPSIS

HOT & HUMID — ideal conditions for disease development. Hot nights and foggy mornings mean lots of fungicide applications.

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING BEST DESCRIBES CURRENT CONDITIONS IN THIS COUNTY?
Mildly Wet (soil is wetter than normal, local vegetation is healthy)
WEATHER

Heat wave breaking late this week. Plentiful moisture, rain about every three days in the forecast.

PRECIPITATION

Above normal precipitation this summer and calling for more next two weeks

FIELD/SOIL CONDITIONS

Weedy fields, wet soil, rescue herbicide applications as we can. Fungicide application is steady as the season is so spread out.

FIELD ACTIVITIES

Spraying herbicides in areas and fungicide applications. Drone, plane and some ground rigs running

SOYBEAN GROWTH STAGE

R1 thru R4

CORN GROWTH STAGE

V8 through early dough stage. Black layer expected in some areas in two weeks. Not widespread, but some fields will be harvested in early September, with the rest to follow.

INSECTS

Few Japanese beetles, not much else. I think they all drowned!

WEEDS

Waterhemp, cocklebur, some grasses breaking. Not much we can do with waterhemp this late, but glyphosate is taking out everything else.

DISEASES

Running the gamut on corn right now, but so far, fungicide has the beans looking pretty good. Expect SDS and BSR anytime.

OTHER

Overall, it could be a lot worse. Still, there are a lot of unplanted acres — it takes a lot of 250-bushel fields to make up for every acre that’s zero. If you think Illinois will have a record corn crop, you need to look south of I-70!

 
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